Seven Digital Iceland projects are nominated to the Icelandic Web Awards, which the Icelandic Federation of the Web Industry (SVEF) will award on Friday.

The activity is growing constantly.

Remotely Piloted Aircrafts will be used for monitoring by the Directorate of Fisheries in March and we would like to ask fishermen to keep in mind that all recordings are carefully examined and fish that goes overboard is species analyzed.

Arnór Snorrason, an expert at Land and Forest Iceland, is among the authors of an article published recently in the prestigious scientific journal Nature. The article describes the work that is currently underway to establish a joint monitoring system for Europe’s forests. Data on the biomass reserves of the European forests and the growth of the biomass there are published. Iceland is now for the first time included on a map showing such information. It can thus be said that the Icelandic forests have finally been "put on the map" in this regard.

The annual report of the Directorate of Fisheries has been published.

Around 326 damage claims have been received in connection with the earthquakes in Grindavík last November. 251 on properties have been inspected and 14 inspections are scheduled for friday and monday

The Directorate of Fisheries has put into use a digital application system in collaboration with Ísland.is for fishing permits.

Now that the sun's ultraviolet (UV) rays are at their strongest, the Icelandic Radiation Safety Authority reminds everyone to use sun protection when necessary.

546 Grindvíkingar have now requested to sell their residential property to the Icelandic Real Estate Association Þórkötlu ehf.

Recently, there have been reports of infections with monkeypox virus in several countries in Europe, e.g. the United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Belgium and Sweden, but the disease has also been detected in the United States and Canada.